Overall Aims
Maths at Queensbury School is there to help our young persons become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics; ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency which is essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment. This is done by:
- Solving problems by helping students to applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
- Reasoning mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
- Most importantly making maths fun and linked to real life.
| KS5 | Intent (Why are we doing it) | Implement (How we are going to do it) | Impact (What we want to see and develop) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | Sixth Form Maths (Discovery) curriculum continuously aims to further enhance and promote independence, understanding of the world and confidence around maths. Our aim to give depth and breadth in topics by remaining ambitious and continue to develop the key skills required to promote independence. We develop skills around money, time, addition and subtraction. | Personalised learning units to encourage maths in the world around them. Units focused on time, money, dates and calculations. Continuing to use the CPA approach (Concrete, Pictorial and Abstract) as a way to develop student’s conceptual understanding. | Promote meaningful mathematical awareness to aid the confidence of this specific cohort. By the end of Key stage 5 students will have gained math skills they need to live independently in the community, to care for themselves and to make choices about their lives. They will have had the opportunity to have their achievements formally recognised through AQA Unit Award Scheme. |
| Explorer | Sixth Form Maths (Explorer) continues to focus on providing pupils with the skills they need when they leave Queensbury and begin their journey and preparation into the world of work and adulthood. We aim to further enhance and support and develop student communication and interaction through their curiosity of numbers, shapes, measurement. Students apply their maths skills through cross curriculum opportunities (community access, visiting shops, personal development lessons). | Students working between EL3-L1 qualifications. Learning outcomes are matched to promote independence confidence. | Students to think about their mathematical journey. Positive attitude to possible courses available to them after sixth form. Ability to use some of their key maths skills in their daily lives. |
| Navigator | Sixth Form Maths (Navigator) continues to be ambitious and further promotes self-belief and resilience. It aims are to further reinforce, develop success in adulthood by promoting independence and the necessary maths skills for further study and preparation for the next part of their adulthood journey. Students are supported and challenged to further mathematical ideas and developing mathematical skills and concepts to support them in their journey for life after school enabling greater independence and contribute positively to life in modern Britain. | Units are at Level 1-Level 2, give our young persons the best opportunity to explore courses at a higher level. Units are specifically selected to support independence and further study opportunities. | Greater understand of careers and courses available to them linked to level 1-Level 2 qualifications. Confidence and independence to use and apply their mathematical skills consistently in their daily lives. |
| Venture | Queensbury Maths Venture curriculum aims to build resilience and trust in relationships. Having an ambitious, yet bespoke curriculum which is formal and semi formal, we aim to identify gaps in our student’s knowledge and give opportunities at Entry level and GCSE. | Incorporate active learning with sufficient flexibility to follow a thematic approach and time needed to meet the individual student needs and interventions. | Prepare students for adulthood and a better understanding of the world around them by reasoning mathematically, solving problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and nonroutine problems. |
Examples.
Delivery of Maths is supported via educational trips (annual visit for KS4 students to RAF Cosford) working with HSBC Bank, Healthy Tuck Shop Money Management, celebration of world maths day, parent workshops, visit to local Tesco and raising money all year round for various charities.
Promotion of careers and real life linked to maths is embedded within the curriculum planning.